Allan Stein
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Shakespeare himself may have coined this word, in Othello, and later he gave the name Ariel to the famous air-spirit character in The Tempest. An aerialist is an acrobat who performs high above the audience. In painting, aerial perspective is the way an artist creates the illusion that a mountain or city is far away (something that early painters only slowly learned how to do), usually by making it slightly misty and bluish gray—as if seen through miles of air. An aerial work platform, or "cherry picker", supports a worker at a high elevation on the end of a crane. And aerial itself can be used as a noun, meaning a TV antenna, a forward pass in football, or a high-flying stunt performed by a skateboarder or snowboarder.
Examples of aerial in a Sentence
Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
Gift cards are available for the Neon Rush Zipline Experience and the equally thrilling Mega Quest underground aerial ropes challenge course ($39.99).
—The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
Roger Sands, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Biles narrowly averted disaster on a side aerial, the easiest skill in her beam routine, but managed to stay on.
—Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 30 July 2024
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“Aerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aerial. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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aerial
1 of 2 adjective
aerial
2 of 2 noun
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